DVI versus VGA?

[Colonel Sanders]

I recently bought a new monitor for one of my older PC's as the old 21'' trinitron flat CRT monitor broke. I think I mentioned this in a thread awhile back.

Anyways I bought an Acer 22'' LCD Wide monitor to replace it.

Now I was expecting it to not be near as clear as my old CRT in it's prime but that didn't concern me, I knew it wouldn't be horrible also.

I connect the monitor using the DVI-D connector as it's what I've been told is best and also best to give the greatest picture. The older Radeon X1650GT AGP (HIS edition) video card I have also supported it, I had to use a DVI-VGA converter when I was using my CRT.

When I get everything set up I notice that something is just not right. It looks worse as I was expecting but it was just a little bit too worse and I was disappointed. After fiddling around with some settings I then notice I can't even change the mundane settings like digital vibrance in the CCC control panel.

So out of some desperate hunch I plug the monitor back in using the VGA connector from the monitor into my video card having to use the DVI to VGA converter on my video card again and I immediately see a huge difference and could now change more visual settings in CCC like digital vibrance/saturation.

This doesn't really seem to make all that much sense to me...from what I've read and goggled shouldn't the effects be just the opposite when using DVI versus VGA?

[Dymond]

It should be.. could it be the DVI settings are putting it in a non-native resolution? Some LCDs do NOT do well if you don't put it in the resolution they don't support. You'll get bad artifacting and a picture that looks FUZZY. You might want to look into that. You have to remember the reason you don't have all those settings is you are sending a digital signal down a DVI connection and not Analog like you do on VGA>

[Red Dragon]

Along with the resolution you should also check your refresh rate - it should most likely be set at 60Hz